Damask Concept
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- Damask
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- Damast
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In Semper's understanding a damask is "ein Brokat ohne Gold" (see Ms_216_230). This is very different from how most specialists today would describe it and might well have been different to how Semper's contemporaries thought of it. A damask today is single colour material, in which the motif is woven by the alteration in the structure of the weave. Whether a damask is a type of brocade is debatable. Some specialists will say that brocade for them is such when a different colour is used in the weft.
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initial version
- dct:creator
- Elena Chestnova
- dct:created
- 2021-05-26T13:40:58+00:00
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- dct:modified
- 2022-05-18T19:11:26+00:00
- dct:creator
- Elena Chestnova